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We would like to provide the residents of  Portland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Portland Home page. The Portland Home page provides as much information as possible on Portland. Knowing Portland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Portland’s Home page, you will also find Portland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Portland has a population of 2072553. 49.6% of Portland’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.4 are female. 41.2% of Portland is married and 53.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $438,460, and the average rent is $1,325. Household median income in Portland is $73,159, and the individual median income is $37,342. Portland’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.3%), Hispanic(9.8%), Asian(8.7%), Multiple(6.4%), Black(5.9%), Other(2.3%), Native(0.8%), Pacific(0.7%).


Portland (, PORT-lənd) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. As of 2020, Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle.


Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area, making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail.


Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous port cities in the world, a hub for organized crime and racketeering. After the city's economy experienced an industrial boom during World War II, its hard-edged reputation began to dissipate.


Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its growing liberal and progressive political values, earning it a reputation as a bastion of counterculture.The city operates with a commission-based government, guided by a mayor and four commissioners, as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States.


Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. This climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the "City of Roses" for over a century.


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